Christiane Amanpour has scored another crucial exclusive, this time an interview with Libya’s Mommar Gadhafi.
He claimed there have been no demonstrations in the streets of Libya’s capital, Amanpour reports.
The dictator also told the ABC News “This Week” anchor he cannot step down, “my people love me.” The full report will air on “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” tonight.
Amanpour interviewed Gadhafi at a restaurant on Tripoli’s Mediterranean coast. “Gadafi told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya,” Amanpour wrote in an ABC News blog post.
“My people love me. They would die for me,” she quotes him as saying.
Amanpour reported that Gadhafi, “dressed in a brown-orange robe, drove up in a small convoy of sedans, got out and greeted us. He said he wanted to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story.”
When she asked the embattled despot whether he would step down in response to calls against violence by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama, “he laughed,” she reports.
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